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April 2026

Barcelona

Hack The Earth 2026: In Defense of Territories is a gathering to weave alliances between defenders of territories and the networks of life, ancient and communal knowledge, and the internet and free media. Calafou, Vallbona d'Anoia, Catalunya, 2-5 April 2026.

Berlin

Cables of Resistance: Movements Conference against Big Tech. We are movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. We want to bring together interested people, activists and movements, network and connect local struggles. We want to deepen our understanding of the problem, exchange ideas about necessary forms of action, develop strategies together and advance the resistance. April 10-12, 2026.

Birmingham

Supersonic, experimental music festival, 25 / 26.04.26.

Brno

Distorted Image. Chapters from the beginnings of video art, House of Arts, 29. 4. 2026 – 16. 8. 2026. The exhibition explores video art in former Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, also featuring experimental film, recordings of performances and actions, early animations, video magazines, video installations and video sculptures.

Brussels

BRDCST, music festival, Ancienne Belgique and other venues across Brussels, 3-6 April 2026.

The Hague

Rewire, music festival, 9-12 April 2026.

Nantes

Le Lieu Unique, the centre for contemporary culture in Nantes, is organising an annual festival of experimental music based around the piano and keyboards: Variations. 4-12 April 2026.

New York

Marcel Duchamp, MoMA, Apr 12–Aug 22, 2026. Featuring some 300 artworks, this exhibition marks the first retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States since 1973. Scholarship mining the artist’s famously enigmatic work has flourished in the intervening half-century—as have myths and misconceptions. This exhibition offers a sweeping account of Duchamp’s multifaceted career across all mediums from 1900 to 1968, offering today’s audience the first opportunity to view the full breadth of his creative output.

Oslo

Bridging the fields of documentary and experimental film and video, No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image offers an expansive, intersectional account of underappreciated encounters between feminism and the moving image. Across a polycentric, global geography, it maps how artists and filmmakers have explored the nexus of gender and power and charts sites at which feminism connects to other struggles for justice. By revisiting the period of the 1970s to 1990s, it aims both to pay homage to the important work that has come before and to respond to the urgencies of the present. Kunstnernes Hus, 13.02.26 – 03.05.26.

Paris

This first edition of RAYON·S takes the form of a day dedicated to those who imagine solar energy as a space of intersection between creation, energy and civic engagement. April 25, 2026, Académie du Climat.

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Wetland Project invites listeners around the planet to tune in to the 10th annual “slow radio” broadcast on International Earth Day (Wednesday, April 22, 2026). Since its inauguration on Vancouver Co-op Radio in 2017, listening to the 24‑hour soundscape from the áčźEណTEណSEN marsh in W̱SÁNEĆ territory (Saturna Island, British Columbia, Canada) has grown into an Earth Day tradition heard on 60 radio stations and via the web in over 50 countries. [1]

Rotterdam

Colonial Infrastructures #6: Resisting Knowledge Erasure: Palestine Shadow Library, with Learning Palestine, Varia, Rotterdam, 18 April 2026. This event closes a chapter of labor that began in our 2023 programme, in collaboration with the BAK Community Portal in Utrecht, with the LIBRARIAN SWARM: Fuzzy Mirror Solidarity Network for Palestine. From hereon out, we will continue devising strategies for circulating this shadow library.

Utrecht

Buen Vivir – a South American philosophy of living in harmony with community and environment – meets Lo-TEK, the vision of researcher Julia Watson, showing how traditional ecological knowledge inspires sustainable technologies. Buen-TEK, the international project that brings these two concepts together to imagine new ways of living, forms the guiding theme of the IMPAKT Festival 2026. 8-12 April.

Vienna

Lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Contemporary Art from Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, 1.5.–26.10.2026. Opening: 30.4.2026, 19:00. Sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, performance and video by over 50 artists will be presented within an exhibition that focuses on new commissions and works that have not previously been exhibited in Vienna. The exhibition takes its title from a survey first presented at the Kunsthalle in 2000, continuing and developing a format that seeks to offer a perspective on the dynamic, transnational and culturally diverse communities of artists living and working in Vienna today.



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"This is a guide brewed from conversations with initiatives in London (UK), Berlin (DE), Prague (CZ), Philadelphia (USA), Rotterdam (NL), Vienna (AT), Lutruwtia (Tas/AU), County Mayo (IE) and a community from Middle America gathering on servers. This text can support you when starting a permacomputing collective. It isn’t a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions. Many actions are cyclical and can be seen as opportunities to revisit or re-purpose later."

Brewing Collectives was initiated by Aymeric Mansoux and Brendan Howell with support from Error 417 Expectation Failed. Text written by anna andrejew, Brendan Howell and Ola Bonati, based on interviews with Ana Meisel (London Permacomputing Club), Archipiélago I, Colm O'Neil (Wilderland permacomputing group), crunk and d1 (rotterdam.permacomputing.net), Brendan Howell (Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up), Michal Klodner (Node9), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Autoluminescence Institute), Simon Repp (permacomputing Vienna), and Steve McLaughlin (Philly permacomputing + solar punk meetups at Iffy Books, hosted together with Dave Slinger).

 Brewing Collectives: How to Start a Permacomputing Collective
 permacomputing.net, January 2026
 16 pages
 PDF, PDF booklet

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2026-2-9

"Large Language Models have, in a sense, created the ultimate (un)ideal readers for electronic libraries. By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all. AI systems read everything and nothing, at inhuman scale and speed — extracting patterns and selling what they pretend to know as consequence. What once symbolised a democratic promise now risks feeding extractive logics that empty reading of meaning.

So, why should we care — and if we do, how can we put that care into practice?

The ‘Careful VS Careless’ exhibition centres a new conversation between custodians of radical public libraries, known as ‘shadow libraries’. Organised around that conversation are a mixture of symbolic and tactical gestures that help people to think and act carefully in relation to the infrastructures of public knowledge systems."

Published on the occasion of Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers and Library Making as Practice at distro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. With the Library of Inclusions and Omissions, Monoskop, The Piracy Project, Public Library / Memory of the World, a.o. Organised by Lucie Kolb and Maria Maddalena Lenzi.

Compiled by DuĆĄan Barok, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Nick Thurston

 Careful: A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice
 distro, Basel, November 2025
 [134] pages
 PDF (22 mb)

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2025-11-5

"How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world?

Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China.

Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a simple collection of traditional maps. This book is a tool that enables comparisons, connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world."

Contributions by: Sophia Al Maria, Heba Y. Amin, Lotte Arndt, Benjamin H. Bratton, KĂ©vin Bray, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Adriana Bustos, Ben Cerveny, Guo Cheng, Chimurenga, Cristina Cochior, Sounak Das, Data Justice Lab (Philippa Metcalfe, Fieke Jansen), Pablo DeSoto, Alex Destoop, Marjolijn Dijkman, DISNOVATION.ORG, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Cao Fei, Shuang Lu Frost, Maya Indira Ganesh, PĂ©lagie Gbaguidi, GCC Group, Geocinema (Asia Baz Qudyrieva, Solveig Suess), John Gerrard, Oulimata Gueye, Camille Henrot, Femke Herregraven, Yuk Hui, Sanneke Huisman, Victoria Ivanova, Vladan Joler, Isaac Kariuki, Francois, Knoetze, Srinivas Kodali, Bogna Konior, LukĂĄĆĄ Likavčan, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Svitlana Matviyenko, Emo de Medeiros, Metahaven, Dorine Mokha, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Edmond Musasa, Leu N’seya, Katja Novitskova, Trevor Paglen, Alice Piva, Chen 'Stanley' Qiufan, Nii Quaynor, Elia Rediger, Tabita Rezaire, Lucas Rolim, Bassem Saad, Nanjira Sambuli, Georges Senga, Nzilani Simu, Andrej Ć kufca, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Suzanne Treister, Unknown Fields, Jordi VallverdĂș, Richard Vijgen, Sarah Waiswa, Zhan Wang, Kedolwa Waziri, Mi You, Qiu Zhijie, Dan Zhu.

Edited by Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner, Mi You

 Vertical Atlas
 Publisher  ArtEZ Press, Arnhem, and Hivos, 2022
 ISBN  9789491444692
 357 pages
 PDF (65 mb)

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2025-11-3

"Une publication multiformat coĂ©ditĂ©e par plus d’une centaine d’éditeurices indĂ©pendant·es, disponible Ă  la vente en librairie et en libre diffusion sur deborderbollore.​fr aux formats web, EPUB et PDF.

Dans le contexte de la campagne DĂ©sarmons BollorĂ©, et en emboĂźtant le pas au boycott appelĂ© par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, Ă©diteurices indĂ©pendant·es, coĂ©ditons collectivement cette publication multiformat pour prendre part depuis notre secteur Ă  la rĂ©flexion gĂ©nĂ©rale sur le dĂ©mantĂšlement de l’empire BollorĂ©.

Les contributions mettent en avant la pensĂ©e de chercheureuses, d’imprimeureuses, d’éditeurices et de libraires qui analysent et/ou subissent les dynamiques de concentration et d’extrĂȘme droitisation du marchĂ©. Chacun·e tente de formuler, depuis sa position respective, des rĂ©ponses Ă  cette question urgente : comment faire face au libĂ©ralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre ?

En tant qu’éditeurices indĂ©pendant·es, nous sommes indirectement visé·es par le projet totalisant de BollorĂ© car nos structures sont des espaces qui permettent la fabrique de contre-rĂ©cits et la circulation de voix minoritaires. Face Ă  de grands groupes monopolistiques qui filtrent les rĂ©cits, il nous faut lutter pour prĂ©server ces espaces essentiels de rĂ©sistance et qui — n’en dĂ©plaise aux prophĂštes·ses du « grand remplacement » et aux croyant·es du « lobby LGBTQ+ » — se font rares.

La forme de cette publication multiformat part du constat suivant : si, Ă  lui seul, Vincent BollorĂ© se montre capable de mobiliser des moyens logistiques et mĂ©diatiques colossaux pour mener sa « guerre civilisationnelle », alors nous devons, de notre cĂŽtĂ©, mobiliser l’entiĂšretĂ© de notre rĂ©seau d’éditeurices, de diffuseurs, de libraires et de relais mĂ©diatiques pour y rĂ©sister. Face Ă  la concentration par les grands groupes, faisons jouer la multiplicitĂ© et la singularitĂ© caractĂ©ristique du monde du livre indĂ©pendant.

BollorĂ©, par l’intermĂ©diaire d’Hachette, est un acteur majeur de la concentration capitalistique du milieu Ă©ditorial, mais il n’est pas le seul instigateur de cette dynamique. C’est la structure mĂȘme du monde du livre qui permet Ă  de grands groupes de s’accaparer 90 % du marchĂ© de l’édition. Ainsi avons-nous dĂ©cidĂ© de « dĂ©border Bolloré », c’est-Ă -dire de dĂ©passer la figure, certes exubĂ©rante du personnage, pour comprendre, dans un premier temps, les mĂ©canismes avec lesquels il opĂšre et comment, dans un second temps, les dĂ©jouer depuis nos positions d’acteurices de l’édition indĂ©pendante."

 Déborder Bolloré: faire face au li­bé­ra­lisme au­to­ri­taire dans le monde du livre
 Collectif éditorial Déborder Bolloré, 2025
 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License
 ISBN 978-3-0361-0138-5
 EPUB, Web, PDFs, Markdown

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2025-7-23

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